Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:36:00 -0800 From: "Robin Stevens" <voltechs@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4) Message-ID: <8b25751b0711071436q3c6d46c3vf842986d38303c34@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47323466.6080901@freebsd.org> References: <8b25751b0711051115t4e592458n929b57ee021467b1@mail.gmail.com> <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org> <8b25751b0711070842s3991b2d2yc1443e5067605508@mail.gmail.com> <47323466.6080901@freebsd.org>
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Oh no Sh*t!!! I was trying to put the loader on the "root" or the FreeBSD partition. Wow, ok, It finally makes sense :) I'll see how that goes when I get home. Thanks! -- Robin On 11/7/07, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi Robin, > > > When I got home, I reformatted my drives, and partitioned into 3 sections: > > > > swap UFS > > root HSF+ > > Mac OS X Extended+Journalized. > > Other than the partition that is running OSX, the types of the other > partitions don't matter. FreeBSD treats them as raw partitions without > respect to what type they have been set to in the partition table. > > > well, needless to say, that didn't seem to work. After it was all > > installed, I couldn't mount those partitions from OS X. The weird > > thing was that I couldn't mount root. Swap seemed to be ok. So, I went > > into Disk Utility, and wiped root. Made sure it was still HSF+, and > > rebooted. I tried installing FreeBSD again, and it went smoothly. When > > I came back into OS X, there was nothing in root. It was completely > > empty. Why!!?!? > > OSX can't understand FreeBSD's UFS format, so it won't mount the volume. > > The next thing to do is to > > - boot OSX > - mount the FreeBSD install CD > - copy /boot/loader from the CDROM to /loader on OSX > - reboot into OpenFirmware > - remembering the partition number that FreeBSD root lives on (e.g. 8 > for the purposes of this example) > > 0 > boot hd:loader hd:8 > > .. and then you should be away. > > later, > > Peter. >
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